• Popular modern music or “pop music” is an ample and imprecise

category of modern music not defined by artistic considerations

but by its potential audience or prospective market.
BALLAD
ROCK AND ROLL
ALTERNATIVE MUSIC
DISCO
• Is a light, simple narrative poem of folk origin, composed of
short stanzas and adapted for singing
• It is a simple song, especially one of sentimental or romantic
character, having two or more stanzas all sang in the same
melody
• Example
“Maybe” by the Neocolours Band
“Ikaw ang lahat sa Akin”
• “Be my Lady” by Martin Nievera
“Each day with You”
• Just like other genres of music and dance, rock and roll started
with pride in 1950s,
• It is considered a combination of white country music, rhythm,
and blues and it is of twelve-bar structure with music of guitar,
drums and bass.
• Example
“Jail house Rock” - sang and performed by “king of Rock and
Roll” Elvis Presley
• It started in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
• It is a do-it-yourself type of music of different bands
• Two most popular Bands with this kinds of music are:
 R.E.M.
Nirvana (famous for its frontman, Kurt Cobian)
• Example
“Smell Like Teen Spirit” performed by Nirvana
• The word “disco” is derived from the word “discotheque” which
refers to nightclubs people frequent in the 1960s and 1970s.
• Disco music is music for dancing usually played and enjoyed in
the nightclubs where song are mixed by DJs
• Example
“Get Down Tonight” by KC and The Sunshine Band in 1980s